Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-14
FRIDAY, OCTOBER II, 1857.
The President and the Press.

The President and the Press.
Never in the history of America,
perhaps never in the history of any
nation, was there pursued so unjust,
80 unpatriotic and so utterly unmanly
q course as very large portion OF the
Republican press is now following
with regard to the President. Mr..
Cleveland has been elected to the
hi CHEST office in the gift of this great
Matt on. He has been elevated to that
exalted position, the grandest on
cart h, by the deliberate choice OF a
majority of the people OF this Re-
public. We boast that we are the
mo st intelligent, enlightened and the
wisest people of this or OF any age.
We pride ourselves on the incompara-
BILE excellence in all respects of our
consultation and OF all the institu-
tions, laws, customs and governmental
functions of all sorts which have been
founded by the fathers of this Re
public. and developed by those who
have followed them from the
earliest, days to this day.
Now, if there is any ground for these
complacent feelings on our part, any
reason on which to set up all these
claims Of superiority, surely the ulti-
mate result of it all cannot be to eXalt
a man to the head Of the Nation who
is disgrace to the whole people. The
elective franchise is the very essen e
of this Government. If in its most
important exercise the ballot in the
hands of a Nation so enlightened as
we ARE results in elevating to the
very head OF the Government man,
stupid of mind, unclean OF morals, a
pot politician, one without merit OF
any sort, and a man hardly fit to asso-
ciate with, then in the name OF COM
mon sense and decency is it not time
to stop this vaunting of our superior
wisdom, of the immaculate excellence
of our institutions, and to put
a. curb or the National pride,
which exalts its horn above all the
earth? Nor is there any exaggera-
tion in these views of the attitude in
which this bitter partisanship of the
Re publican press places us. The
latest exhibit of these unwise, unjust
and unwarranted attacks on Mr..
Clev Gland to come to light was that
on the part OF the Minneapolis Tribune
on the occasion of the Presidents re-
cent visit to that city. The traitor to
his country's honor, the low-bred
blackguard who SO forgets what is due
to the head of his Nation stops not at
scurrilous filings at the man himself.
He passes all the bounds set by gentle
men in such matters and attacks Mrs.
Cleveland, turns the mud-gates
from his linguistic slums loose
on a woman! A dog never was
known to lack in gallantry to the fe-
male of his species. 1t is reserved
for an editor whose party boasts of its
godliness and morality to exceed in
baseness the lowest bred of the brute
creation. This cur who has digraced
not only noble profession, but his
whole country, goes so far as to say
that Mrs. Cleveland is older than she
pretends to be, and with admirable
consistency turns round and abuses
her for marrying man so much her
senior. Going beyond this, the Presi-
dents past life is called into question,
and his wife abused for marrying him
on this score. There should go up
from the lungs OF every self-respect-
ing American citizen loud and long
cry of condemnatiCn-a cry of shame
unspeakable on the man who forgets
every attribute of man even to that
chivalrous feeling for woman which
is, after all, only a common heritage
we share with the brutes. Mr.
Cleveland is making good President
His wife, by all reports, is as sweet :
specimen OF American womanhood a
ever graced an American home; an'
American women can queen itover th'
most exalted of the most enlightened
people of the earth. The commones
grade of manhood would respect her
The lowest patriotism would protec
the President from such low-Hung at
tacks. Only traitor will disclose tn
disgrace of his Nation in the worst o
cases. Only brutal blackguard vii
attack woman.